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In-Office or Remote
Chicago, IL
128K-191K Annually
Senior level
128K-191K Annually
Senior level
Digital Media • Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Financial Services • Cybersecurity • Automation
The Principal Software Engineer will lead and develop innovative technology solutions for banking, focusing on Calypso platforms with an Agile methodology.
Top Skills: AngularAPIsAWSBitbucketCalypsoDevsecopsETLHTMLJavaJavaScriptJenkinsLinuxMqNexusOracle SqlPostgresPythonSpring BootTerraformUnixWebsphere
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Remote
Chicago, IL
209K-306K Annually
Expert/Leader
209K-306K Annually
Expert/Leader
Financial Services
The Principal Software Engineer will provide technical and architectural leadership in data engineering, focusing on strategy, innovation, and ensuring successful production deliveries while fostering teamwork and mentoring.
Top Skills: AgileBusiness IntelligenceCloudData IntegrationData LakeData TechnologyData WarehouseDistributed SystemsMicroservicesNoSQL
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Remote
Chicago, IL
159K-239K Annually
Expert/Leader
159K-239K Annually
Expert/Leader
Financial Services
The Principal Software Engineer provides technical leadership for enterprise applications focusing on ERP and core systems, resolving complex issues, and enhancing solutions while ensuring best practices in full-stack development.
Top Skills: .NetAgileAWSAzureC#Ci/Cd ToolsDevOpsHTMLMicrosoft Power AutomateNoSQLRuby on RailsRedisSQLWeb ApiXML
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In-Office
Chicago, IL
201K-250K Annually
Expert/Leader
201K-250K Annually
Expert/Leader
Fintech • Payments
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will architect WEX's Data-as-a-Service platform, set standards, guide strategy, and mentor teams while driving innovation with modern technologies.
Top Skills: AirflowDagsterDbtDeltaIcebergKafkaMl-Ready Data ServicesSpark
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Remote
Chicago, IL
385K-490K Annually
Expert/Leader
385K-490K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Generative AI
Lead the architecture of backend services and distributed systems for OpenAI's B2B engineering team, ensuring scalable, reliable, and secure products.
Top Skills: GoPythonRustTypescript
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Remote
Chicago, IL
270K-375K Annually
Mid level
270K-375K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Productivity • Software
The Principal Software Engineer at Motion will make key technical decisions, implement large software projects, take ownership of projects, and collaborate with other engineers to enhance product value.
Top Skills: .NetC#PostgresReactReact QueryTemporal
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Senior level
Senior level
Healthtech • Software
The Principal Software Engineer will lead AI systems development and mentor teams, driving AI adoption and ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations.
Top Skills: Ai EngineeringAutogenCrewaiData PipelinesLangchainLanggraphLlamaindex
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Remote
Chicago, IL
292K-365K Annually
Expert/Leader
292K-365K Annually
Expert/Leader
Real Estate • Travel • PropTech
As Principal Software Engineer, you'll define and drive Airbnb's performance strategy, lead performance profiling development, mentor engineers, and connect performance outcomes to business objectives.
Top Skills: AWSAzureDockerGCPKubernetes
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Remote
Chicago, IL
220K-292K Annually
Expert/Leader
220K-292K Annually
Expert/Leader
Cloud • Security • Software • Generative AI
Lead design and development of automated benchmarking tooling and processes for Elasticsearch at cloud scale. Define methodologies, run and interpret performance tests, investigate regressions, assist capacity planning, and mentor engineers. Collaborate cross-functionally to tune distributed systems and report benchmarking results.
Top Skills: Bash (Linux Shell)Ci/CdContainersElasticsearchElasticsearch Query ApiJavaJvmKibanaKubernetesLinuxPythonVms
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Remote
Chicago, IL
170K-200K Annually
Senior level
170K-200K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology
Lead the design and implementation of full-stack solutions while mentoring junior engineers and driving agile development practices within the organization.
Top Skills: AWSDockerGitJavaKubernetesNoSQLPostgresPythonReactSQLTypescript
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Remote or Hybrid
Chicago, IL
246K-339K Annually
Expert/Leader
246K-339K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Business Intelligence
Lead design and reliability of a financial data extraction platform, minimizing human validation through AI, and enhance system correctness for scale.
Top Skills: AICloud-Native ArchitecturesData PlatformsDistributed SystemsMl
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Expert/Leader
Expert/Leader
Information Technology • Internet of Things
The Principal Software Engineer will lead technical initiatives, develop scalable solutions, mentor teams, and drive system architecture for a connected equipment platform.
Top Skills: .NetAWSC#CSSDockerEc2ElasticsearchHTMLJavaScriptKinesisKubernetesNode.jsNoSQLPythonS3SQLVpc
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Senior level
Senior level
Information Technology • Marketing Tech • Social Media
Develop and maintain advanced security software solutions, architect AI-enhanced microservices, and lead project teams for threat protection at GoDaddy.
Top Skills: AWSElasticapmGoJavaPython
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In-Office or Remote
Chicago, IL
Expert/Leader
Expert/Leader
Marketing Tech
The Principal Software Engineer will lead the modernization of seller applications, set technical strategy, and mentor engineers while driving architecture and engineering practices in a cloud-native environment.
Top Skills: .NetAzureC#OpentelemetryPostgresReact
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Remote
Chicago, IL
200K-316K Annually
Senior level
200K-316K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Generative AI
The Principal Software Engineer II will lead and contribute to Elasticsearch's Storage Engine team, focusing on efficient data querying, indexing, and developing Timeseries solutions. This role requires strong technical leadership, collaboration across teams, and expertise in Java and Elasticsearch.
Top Skills: CassandraElasticsearchJavaMongoDBPostgresSolr
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Remote
Chicago, IL
120K-180K Annually
Mid level
120K-180K Annually
Mid level
Automotive • Analytics
Design and develop web applications, mentor teammates, shape architectural decisions, write clean code, conduct testing, and troubleshoot issues.
Top Skills: AWSAzureCSSD3.JsDockerGCPGraphQLHTMLJestPlotly.JsPythonReactSQLTypescript
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Remote
Chicago, IL
161K-350K Annually
Senior level
161K-350K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • Digital Media • Information Technology • Other
Lead AI adoption initiatives and cultural transformation in engineering at Yahoo Mail, enhancing developer productivity through AI tools and practices.
Top Skills: Anthropic ClaudeChatgptCi/CdClaude CodeDevOpsGithub CopilotGoogle GeminiOpenai Codex
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Remote
Chicago, IL
12-12 Annually
Expert/Leader
12-12 Annually
Expert/Leader
Software
The Principal Software Engineer will lead technical initiatives, own systems and capabilities, drive architectural improvements, provide mentorship, and ensure quality across the engineering organization while delivering complex software solutions.
Top Skills: .NetAngularAWSC#Cloud Platforms (AzureGcp)PostgresPythonSdkSQL Server
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Remote
Chicago, IL
Senior level
Senior level
Healthtech • Software
Design, develop, and deploy secure, scalable software solutions; implement and automate CI/CD pipelines and testing; manage cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure) and infrastructure automation; provide Tier III support, monitor performance and SLAs, and train teams on automation best practices.
Top Skills: .NetAWSAzureC#Ci/CdGitJenkinsPl/SqlPostgresSQL
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In-Office
Chicago, IL
217K-260K Annually
Senior level
217K-260K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Principal Software Engineer will design, develop, and implement complex solutions for the FedNow service, providing technical leadership and ensuring high-quality software across various technologies.
Top Skills: AWSCi/CdJavaNoSQLRdsSpringTerraform
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Remote or Hybrid
Chicago, IL
160K-262K Annually
Senior level
160K-262K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Computer Vision • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Software • Cybersecurity
The Principal Software Engineer will lead development for Dataminr's Knowledge Platform, focusing on AI and data engineering to enhance knowledge graphs and alerting capabilities.
Top Skills: AICloudData EngineeringDistributed SystemsEtl PipelinesJavaKnowledge GraphsPythonScala
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Remote
Chicago, IL
266K-426K Annually
Expert/Leader
266K-426K Annually
Expert/Leader
Software
The Principal Software Engineer will lead and shape the Data Platform's technical direction, drive architectural standards, mentor teams, and enhance HubSpot's AI-powered CRM capabilities.
Top Skills: Ai/MlData ArchitectureDeveloper FrameworksDistributed SystemsIngestion PipelinesStorage SystemsSynchronization Systems
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Remote
Chicago, IL
220K-303K Annually
Expert/Leader
220K-303K Annually
Expert/Leader
Mobile • Sharing Economy • Transportation
The Principal Software Engineer will design and build scalable core technology systems for Lime's fleet and mentor a team of engineers. Responsibilities include defining technical strategy and collaborating cross-functionally to improve technology and user experiences.
Top Skills: Backend SystemsCloud TechnologiesIotSoftware Development
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Remote
Chicago, IL
160K-253K Annually
Senior level
160K-253K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Generative AI
Design and implement new search features and fixes in Elasticsearch, invent or implement algorithms/data structures, collaborate with a distributed team, contribute to Lucene, and build scalable search functionality for serverless platforms.
Top Skills: CassandraElasticsearchEs|QlGitGitJavaLuceneMongoDBPostgresSaaSServerlessSlackSolrZoom
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Remote
Chicago, IL
182K-306K Annually
Senior level
182K-306K Annually
Senior level
Other • Real Estate • PropTech
Lead the design and implementation of mortgage technology features, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to improve customer experiences.
Top Skills: C#GoJavaNode.jsNon-Relational DatabasesRelational Databases
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